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Dr Ali Yunis Aldahesh joined the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies as a Lecturer in Arabic Language, Literature and Culture in February 2011. He worked for the last three years at the Australian National University as a Lecturer in Arabic at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia). Dr Aldahesh received his PhD in Translation and Linguistics from the University of Western Sydney. He has completed an MA by coursework in Translation and Linguistics from UWS and an MA by research in Semitic Studies from the University of Sydney. Dr Aldahesh graduated with a BA in 1986 from Al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad. He began lecturing in Arabic in the School of Humanities and Languages, College of Arts at UWS in 2004. Prior to that he was teaching Arabic Language and Literature in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Dr Aldahesh's most recent publications are Translating Idiomatic English Phrasal Verbs into Arabic: A Contrastive Linguistic Study, (VDM: 2009) and The Concept of Taqwa in the Qur'an as Understood by Muslim Commentators, (Ray Publishing: 2010). He has also published a collection of short stories in Arabic entitled, Travelling Towards Water, UWS (2007).

Aldahesh, A. (2010). Teaching and Learning Arabic in Australia: The Government and Non-Government Funded Experiences. Arabic Language between Extinction and Development – Challenges and Prospects 2010.

Aldahesh, A. (2009). Notes on Western Scholars' Classification of Arabic Prepositions. Arabic Language in the Perspective of Socio-Culture 2009.

Aldahesh, A. (2010). Teaching and Learning Arabic in Australia: The Government and Non-Government Funded Experiences. Arabic Language between Extinction and Development – Challenges and Prospects 2010.

Aldahesh, A. (2010). The Concept of Taqwa in the Holy Qur'an as Understood by Muslim Commentators. Syria: Ray Publishing.